Last year I got to thinking. I know, I know! Dangerous territory! But, I let it get the best of me and started to think. I asked myself, “Self… If I could do one thing over in my life, what would it be?”

My answer then was ~ I wish I applied myself more in school and started a career I enjoyed earlier.

My answer now is ~ I wish the same as last year, but, also that I felt comfortable enough to uproot my life to live in a completely new environment that was out of my comfort zone. Whether it was a city life or country life.

I asked the question on my Facebook wall and answers I had received were:

One wished she went to Law School immediately after obtaining her Bachelors Degree.

Another friend wished she traveled more when she was younger, had no responsibilities and would have been perfectly comfortable doing it on the cheap, such as sleeping on hard, dirty floors.

Another wished she worked at the beach for the summer when she was a teenager.

Yet another would never have stopped running.

My one sister responded that she wished she hired a professional photographer for her wedding (she’s the photo freak in the family 🙂 ) and wished she hadn’t stopped at two children.

My brother wished he didn’t have a learning disability that slowed him down in life. (Happy to say he is FINALLY going on his first cruise this year! Love that man 🙂 )

Another friend said she wished she kept her Geography class in the 9th grade instead of Physics. High School Counselors, take note! Learn the students you are advising! She would have known that Geography was her strong suit with the proper guidance.

Yet another friend said she would never have gotten married before the age of 30. She only did it because she didn’t want to never have been married when she turned 30. Married in 1997 when there was still a strong feeling that you had to be married before you were 30.

The final persons response? If she had done one thing differently, she wouldn’t have her wonderful children today.

I shared this post again and asked them, in the year since you answered this, has your answer changed?

Most of the answers had remained the same. I know it was only one year later, but, a lot can change in a year!

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I wish I would have bought stock in Walmart back in the 70’s when Sam Walton expanded his stores – and other start-ups that are now huge companies. 🙂 Back in the day, we weren’t taught much about finances. Other than things like that, I pretty much try to live my life with no regrets. I did love reading all the answers you received on FB.

These is such a hard question because I truly believe that everything happens so a reason. Although, if I HAD to change one thing in my life it would be investing in Disney or Apple stock back in the day.

I wish I had taken high school more seriously. I did amazing in university but I missed out on a lot of opportunities off the bat because I didn’t take school seriously as a teenager. If I could go back I’d have taken AP courses and tried to apply for more scholarhips/better schools. But hindsight is 20/20 and my life has sitll turned out well! 🙂

This is always a tough question for me because I am not sure what I would change. Hmmm I really don’t want to change a thing except maybe have my boyfriend not be broken ankled up anymore? He broke his ankles and the bills pile in (no insurance for him) and watching him not be allowed to walk on it (or able to) stinks

I can agree with you there – I took a break in between high school and college and it took me longer than I had thought it would to really get in gear with college. Once I did, I was behind all my friends, but quickly caught up – but do wish I had not wasted those years doing pretty much nothing but having fun.

Gosh that is a hard one. I’m a pretty strong believer in everything happens for a reason so I don’t know that there is one thing that I would really change. If pressed, I guess it would be to have saved/invested money when I was younger. And traveled more before I had kids.

I wish my husband and I had lived on less when we first got married, before having kids. We could have lived a much simpler life and had our mortgage paid down far more before having kids. But alas, here we are slogging away at paying off the mortgage! lol

I’m not sure what I would change in my life. God has blessed me in a lot of ways and I think I am the way I am because of my past. There is definitely sadness in my life or failure but in the end I think it help me learn to move on faster.

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